Lights, Camera, Action: Wild and Intriguing Facts About Our Favorite Old Hollywood Movies and Stars

Whether you’re singing along with Julie Andrews as she twirls on the mountaintop or tapping your toes to the infectious beat of “The Lonely Goatherd,” The Sound of Music is a timeless classic that continues to delight audiences around the world. But making this magical movie come true wasn’t an easy task for Andrews…

To capture this scene, a camera operator was securely fastened to a helicopter and lifted into the air. Despite the rainy weather conditions that day, the scene was filmed multiple times from this aerial perspective. Julie Andrews later revealed that “each time the helicopter finished, it circled around me, but the powerful downdraft from the jet engines caused me to be flung into the grass.”